Educational attainment and the gender wage gap. Evidence from the 1986 and 1991 Canadian censuses.

Autor/inn/en	Christie, Pamela; Shannon, Michael
Titel	Educational attainment and the gender wage gap. Evidence from the 1986 and 1991 Canadian censuses.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 20 (2001) 2, S. 165-180Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 18; Tabellen 10
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/S0272-7757(99)00058-8
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Empirische Untersuchung; Vergleichsuntersuchung; Bildungsniveau; Bildungsabschluss; Einkommen; Hochschulabschluss; Studienfach; Akademiker; Kanada
Abstract	The paper takes advantage of the detailed information ... provided in the Canadian Census to examine gender differences in educational attainment and the effect of these differences on the gender earnings gap for full-time, full-year workers in Canada. Gender differences in field of study of post-secondary graduates are found to be an important contributor to the gap. This is an important finding given the lack of such data in most studies of the gender gap. Gender differences in educational attainment account for virtually none of the gender gap in the earnings in 1985 and 1990 - a result also found in earlier studies using less detailed assessment data. However, projections suggest that although gender differences in attainment explain little of the gap in these years, the continuing improvement in women's educational attainment relative to men has helped shrink the gap in the past and will likely continue to do so. (DIPF/orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2002_(CD)